Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Jared H. Hudson" <jhhudso@××××××××××.com>
To: John Dee <antitux@××××××××.com>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Netscape Packages
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:40:15
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.44.0204121437430.21398-100000@volumehost.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Netscape Packages by antitux@netscape.com (John Dee)
1 True. My mistake. I do not know the answer and it's not for me to decided.
2 I suggest that you email jnelson@g.o since he's the one who created
3 the current netscape 4.79 ebuild, he'd be the one to make the decision
4 most likely.
5
6 -Jared H.
7
8 On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, John Dee wrote:
9
10 > okay, so what question did that answer?
11 > mozilla != netscape
12 >
13 >
14 > Jared H. Hudson wrote:
15 > > I think mozilla 0.9.9 is what most people build these days on Gentoo.
16 > >
17 > > -Jared H.
18 > >
19 > > On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, John Dee wrote:
20 > >
21 > >
22 > >>One more question I've got.
23 > >>Would you guys be willing to replace netscape 4.x with netscape 6 as the
24 > >>default browser?
25 > >>Since netscape 4.x isn't really being maintained anymore (I do builds
26 > >>once a week, blah bleh), and the 6.x line is nscp's main focus, would
27 > >>you guys be willing to make netscape6 the default netscape browser?
28 > >>
29 > >>George Shapovalov wrote:
30 > >>
31 > >>>If you would like to see Netscape 6 in gentoo and are willing to spend some
32 > >>>time on it, please do contribute by any means.
33 > >>>Now to the technical stuff.
34 > >>>You do not need to know many details about portage code. What is getting
35 > >>>submitted is a set of build instructions wrapped in a bash script (and as
36 > >>>such, the tarball itself will not help much).
37 > >>>Please see:
38 > >>>http://www.gentoo.org/doc/gentoo-howto.html
39 > >>>for a description on how to create such an ebuild
40 > >>>(bash script (quite often very basic) containing install instructions). You
41 > >>>can also look at ebuilds for other packages.
42 > >>>The ebuild and any necessary supplementary files (patches, etc) are to be
43 > >>>submitted to http://bugs.gentoo.org, this page contains an ebuild submission
44 > >>>description:
45 > >>>http://www.gentoo.org/doc/ebuild-submit.html.
46 > >>>
47 > >>>If you still do not feel like creating an ebuild file (BTW you can always go
48 > >>>to #gentoo channel at irc.openprojects.net to get some real-time ebuild
49 > >>>creation assistance) you can instead submit build instructions and any url
50 > >>>pointers to bugs.gentoo.org as a feature request ( but this will take more
51 > >>>time to process for obvious reasons :)).
52 > >>>
53 > >>>George
54 > >>>
55 > >>>
56 > >>>On Friday 12 April 2002 11:32, John Dee wrote:
57 > >>>
58 > >>>
59 > >>>>I was looking at your netscape packages, and was wondering why you guys
60 > >>>>weren't using the 6.x series. The reason I ask, is that the 4.x series
61 > >>>>probably won't have another release (I'm the *NIX build engineer on the
62 > >>>>project).
63 > >>>>I'm also one of the build engineers on the 6.x project.
64 > >>>>Also, if needed, I could make a 6.x package for you guys. It really
65 > >>>>wouldn't take much to do.
66 > >>>>The only thing that might be a problem is the fact I don't know portage
67 > >>>>yet (I've been using gentoo a total of about 3 days).
68 > >>>>I *COULD* supply you guys with a tarball, and instructions, if you want.
69 > >>>>
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